Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Promoting Africa’s growth and economic development by championing citizen inclusion and increased cooperation and integration of African states.
Agenda 2063 is the blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future. It is the strategic framework for delivering on Africa’s goal for inclusive and sustainable development and is a concrete manifestation of the pan-African drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity pursued under Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance.
H.E President William Samoei Ruto (PhD), President of the Republic of Kenya and the African Union Champion on Institutional Reform. H.E. Ruto was appointed during the 37th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in February 2024 to champion the AU Institutional Reform process taking over from the H.E Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda who led the implementation of the reform process since 2016.
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The First Extra-Ordinary Session of the Specialised Technical Committee (STC) on Transport, Transcontinental and Interregional Infrastructure, Energy and Tourism (STC-TTIIET)
The development of the African Union Campaign and negotiation of an AU Convention on Ending Violence against Women and Girls; the full implementation of the African Union guidelines on the Gender Responsive Responses to COVID-19; the universal ratification, domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol on Women’s Rights; the approval to disseminate the AU Strategy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and the
Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) have been at the centre of discussions in Africa due to their negative impact on development financing, sustainable development and growth. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the fiscal deficit situation in some African countries, equally bringing to the fore, the urgency to address the vice of the illicit outflows.
WHAT: Weekly engagement with members of the media to share critical updates on the COVID-19 response activities. This week’s briefing will be live from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Director of Africa CDC is on the second leg of his field visits to AU member states to assess the COVID-19 situations in the countries.
Each year on World AIDS Day, we take time to reflect upon our worldwide response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by remembering where we started decades ago, honouring our achievements, and pledging to work harder and smarter, for more inclusive and innovative strategies towards the end of AIDS by 2030. This year, health systems are in the most pressed state in history, as we strive to meet the socio-economic shocks and disruptions brought about the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Social Affairs, through the Labor, Employment and Migration Division, has been working to strengthen the coordination of the migration agenda in the African Union Commission (AUC). This is a key strategy of the Department’s 5-Year Migration Strategic Plan that seeks to promote synergy and collaboration among various AUC departments, offices and specialized agencies of the African Union.
S.E Dr Mèdessè Véronique Tognifodé Mewanou, Ministre des Affaires sociales et de la Microfinance, Benin et Présidente du Bureau du Comité Technique Spécialisé TS sur l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes et l’autonomisation des femmes à l’occasion du 5ème Comité Technique Spécialisé sur l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes et l’autonomisation
Esteemed Ministers and Representatives of African states,
Esteemed leaders and officials of the African Union Commission,
Your Excellences, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Honourable Chairperson
Your Excellencies HON. Ministers of Gender Equality and Women’s Affairs of our Continent;
The AU Experts on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment;
Your Excellencies present
Distinguished invited guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
I am deeply honoured to be given this opportunity to make a statement in this high level important meeting of African Ministers of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment; as a newly elected President of Pan African Women’s Organisation (PAWO).
Honourable Ministers;
Your Excellencies Ambassadors;
Executive Director of the International Energy Agency;
Distinguished Guests;
Ladies and Gentlemen:
